"Not Fond Of Chess, So Was Cheated": Lalu Yadav Party Veteran Quits
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Shyam Rajak, a prominent Dalit leader, wrote a letter to the party President Lalu Yadav, announcing that he has given up on his primary membership.
Four years after switching over to the Rashtriya Janata Dal, former Bihar minister Shyam Rajak claimed he felt "cheated" and decided to quit the party. The ex-minister switched over from Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) to Lalu Yadav's party in 2020. Shyam Rajak, a prominent Dalit leader, wrote a letter to the party President Lalu Yadav, announcing that he has given up on his primary membership. #WATCH | Patna, Bihar: On his resignation from RJD, Shyam Rajak says, "...I was in the RJD and the people of the party were playing games. That is why I wrote (in my resignation) in the letter that they were playing games while I was carrying on the relations...I don't know… pic.twitter.com/YSv1dfWEiK
"I was not fond of a game of chess, hence got cheated. You kept planning your moves, I kept caring about our relationship," he said in a cryptic post on X in Hindi, where he shared the letter he wrote Mr Yadav.
"I was in the RJD and the people at the party were playing games. That is why I wrote (in my resignation) in the letter that they were playing games while I was carrying on the relations. I don't know anything else except self-respect, honour, and vision to work. You are all journalists, you can assess if I was kept on the sidelines or in the mainstream...," he told ANI. He added that he has not made any decision about joining any other party.
